Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing
Sphere packing—it's not just for oranges anymore
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Menger Sponge
It’s not quite two-dimensional, it’s not quite three-dimensional. Welcome to the weird world of fractal dimension
Quiz: Are You a Real Math Geek?
A highly scientific assessment of your math geekitude
What to Wear in the Ninth Dimension
Why your clothing is actually visiting you from higher-dimensional space
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Empty Set
A guided tour of nothing
49 Ways to Celebrate the Most Perfect Day of the Year
June 28—6/28 or 28/6—is the most mathematically perfect day of the year. Celebrate by befriending a perfect number
Widget Accounting with FOIL
Using basic algebra to explain revenue shortfalls
Topology at the Tonys
And the Tony Award for the best use of mathematics in a musical goes to…
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: 2 Tori Glued along a Slit
How to get from billiards to doughnuts
The Male Gaze in a Math Book
I kind of assumed I could get past page 2 of a math book before the author objectified women...
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